Word: overturning
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...fitting that court fines are also measured in billions. Three weeks ago, a Houston jury ordered Texaco to pay Pennzoil $10.5 billion in damages for snatching Getty Oil away from Pennzoil in a takeover battle. Judge Solomon Casseb last week was due to review the decision. He could uphold, overturn or reduce the award. Journalists, high-priced lawyers, Wall Street traders and more than 200 onlookers last Tuesday squeezed into a cramped fifth-floor room in the Harris County Civil Courts Building, anticipating a decision. Casseb's verdict was expected at 1:30 p.m., but after taking the bench...
Millard, whose family owns more than 95% of ComputerLand, is also scrambling to overturn a March verdict in which a California jury awarded 20% of the company's shares to a group of investors that includes a former employee. The judgment ordered Millard to pay $115 million in punitive damages for refusing to deliver stock owed to the investors. It was one of the stiffest such awards in California history. Millard must post a $25 million bond by early November to appeal the ruling...
Moreover, the end of the strike settles a potentially sticky mess caused by extremely intelligent fans in Saugus, Mass. These diplomats of America's pastime decided that they would take strike matters into their own hands and overturn neighborhood subcompact cars for as long as the strike went on. They got to four cars on the first night of the strike and vowed nine more each night--one for each missed inning--until baseball returned to Fenway Park...
Almost simultaneously in Washington, Attorney General Edwin Meese III asked the Supreme Court to overturn its 1973 "Roe v. Wade" ruling legalizing abortions nationwide. Meese has asked the Supreme Court to reconsider the decision that gave women the Constitutional right to end their own pregnancies...
Opponents greeted the decision with protests and legal appeals. More than 80 demonstrators were arrested after some 200 people marched outside the Three Mile Island plant to denounce the ruling. Pennsylvania Governor Richard Thornburgh immediately petitioned to overturn what he called a "premature and irresponsible" vote. The court fight could delay the reopening for months...